Nikola Tesla
Above: Night view of Manhattan from Tesla's window on the 33rd floor, Hotel New Yorker.
Above: Plaque on Room 3327 in Hotel New Yorker with short biograph of Nikola Tesla.
Above: Nikola Tesla live in both Room 3327 and Room 3328 in Hotel New Yorker from 1933-1943. Located in Room 3327 was Tesla's safe where he locked his scientific papers including the famous “Tesla Death Rays” papers. After Tesla's death, these papers disappeared and were never found again. Tesla's nephew, Sava Kosanovich, Ambassador of Yugoslavia, enter the Hotel Room 3327 to find the safe open and scientific papers missing. See "Charlotte Muzar - The Tesla Papers"
Above: Tesla Commemorative plaque on Hotel New Yorker, elected on July 10, 2001.
Above: From left to right: Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Croatia, Serbian President Boris Tadic, Croatian President Stipe Mesic, Vuk Draskovic, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Serbian Ambassador to the United States Ivan Vujacic under the Tesla commemorative plaque.
Nikola Tesla with King Peter of Yugoslavia in Hotel New Yorker on July 15, 1942. Tesla's nephew, Sava Kosanovic, is third from the left.
Above: Miss. Charlotte Muzar
Miss. Charlotte Muzar was the secretary and assistant to Nikola Tesla’s nephew Ambassador Sava N. Kosanovic. She wrote two Tesla articles:
Miss Charlotte Muzar has personal knowledge about the events following Tesla’s death: his funeral, cremation and “missing” Tesla papers.
Miss Muzar’s testimonial writings are therefore of enormous importance.
Nikola Tesla’s nephew, Ambassador Sava N. Kosanovic was the administrator of Tesla’s estate. Mr. Kosanovic was the minister of the State of Yugoslavia and a member of theYugoslav Mission to the United States in New York, from June 1942 to October 1944. Mr. Kosanovic was the Yugoslav Ambassador to the United States, in Washington D.C. from July 1946 to May 1950.
Tesla Papers
Nikola Tesla died on January 7th, 1943 in Hotel New Yorker, in Manhattan, in room 3327 on the 33rd floor of the hotel. Immediately after Tesla’s death, Tesla scientific papers vanished from his hotel room in Hotel New Yorker. Tesla papers were never found. Tesla papers contained scientific data and information about “Death Rays”, which could be used for military purposes.
In 1947 the Military Intelligence service identified the writings about the particle-beam contained in Tesla’s scientific papers as “extremely important.” Military intelligence services of the USA, Germany and USSR were vitally interested in Tesla’s “Death Rays”.
The current beam-weapon program is originated from Tesla’s “Death Rays” idea.
Tesla claimed of having invented a “death ray” capable of destroying 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 250 miles (400 kilometers).
On July 23, 1934 Time Magazine wrote an article about Tesla’s Ray:
“Last week Dr. Tesla announced a combination of four inventions which would make war unthinkable.
Nucleus of the idea is a death ray-a concentrated beam of sub-microscopic particles flying at velocities approaching that of light. The beam, according to Tesla, would drop an army in its tracks, bring down squadrons of airplanes 250 miles away. Inventor Tesla would discharge the ray by means of 1) a device to nullify the impeding effect of the atmosphere on the particles 2)a method for setting up high potential 3) a process for amplifying that potential to 50,000.000 volts; 4) creation of “a tremendous electrical repelling force.”
Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American physicist, inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering before emigrating to theUnited States in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison in New York City. He soon struck out on his own with financial backers, setting up laboratories and companies to develop a range of electrical devices. His patented AC induction motor and transformer were licensed byGeorge Westinghouse, who also hired Tesla for a short time as a consultant. His work in the formative years of electric power development was involved in a corporate alternating current/direct current "War of Currents" as well as various patent battles.
Tesla went on to pursue his ideas of wireless lighting and electricity distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs, and made early (1893) pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. He tried to put these ideas to practical use in his ill-fated attempt at intercontinental wireless transmission, which was his unfinishedWardenclyffe Tower project. In his lab he also conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He also built a wireless controlled boat, one of the first ever exhibited.
Tesla was renowned for his achievements and showmanship, eventually earning him a reputation in popular culture as an archetypal "mad scientist". His patents earned him a considerable amount of money, much of which was used to finance his own projects with varying degrees of success. He lived most of his life in a series of New York hotels, through his retirement. He died on 7 January 1943. His work fell into relative obscurity after his death, but in 1960 the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the SI unit of magnetic flux density the tesla in his honor. There has been a resurgence in interest in Tesla in popular culture since the 1990s.
